Massachusetts voters rejected Question 8 by about three to one on Tuesday. Yet a Question 8 vote breakdown by city shows the marijuana repeal measure drew its strongest support in working-class Democratic cities, where it ran ahead of the Republican nominee for governor.

In Randolph, 30.5 percent of voters said yes on Question 8, while 19.4 percent voted for GOP gubernatorial nominee Mike Minogue, according to an analysis of unofficial AP results published by The Boston Globe and compiled by Smart Approaches to Marijuana. In Chelsea, 28.1 percent backed repeal and 19.3 percent backed Minogue.

The Question 8 Vote Breakdown, City by City

The pattern held across the state’s largest Democratic strongholds. Boston went 21.3 percent yes on Question 8 against 18.0 percent for Minogue. Everett voted 30.2 percent yes to 25.8 percent for the Republican. Lynn voted 28.5 percent yes to 27.9 percent. Springfield voted 28.1 percent yes to 26.3 percent.

Statewide, the partisan gap all but disappears. In towns Gov. Maura Healey carried, 24 percent of voters supported repeal. In the towns Minogue carried, 26 percent did.

Healey, who led Minogue by 25 points in the final UMass Amherst poll, won re-election easily. Question 8 did not need to win to show something the governor’s race could not: a sizable block of voters in Democratic cities who are not Republicans and still wanted the pot shops gone.

Who Voted Yes in the Question 8 Vote Breakdown

The cities at the top of the list share a profile. Chelsea, Everett, Lynn, Randolph and Springfield are working-class cities with large immigrant and minority populations, and they vote Democratic in every statewide race. For their residents the question on the ballot was not abstract. The stores, the billboards and the high-potency products have been part of the streetscape for years.

Those voters did not take their cue from a party. Healey carried their cities by wide margins on the same ballot. A quarter to nearly a third of them still voted to close the stores.

More than 559,000 people voted yes statewide, the first time any electorate has been asked to reverse a commercial marijuana market, ten years after the state legalized. The industry’s election-night story was that repeal was a partisan import. The map says the opposite. The communities living closest to the industry were the ones most willing to vote it out.

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